Video Production Director

Description

Summary: As the Video Production Director (FL), main duties include coordination, operation, and technical support, including but not limited to, video and production equipment, in all Faith Church venues throughout the week including all weekly services, special events, and offsite events. To recruit, train, encourage, and lead video volunteers in production. Perform research, preparation, and practice for best-use of production equipment and video directing to create an environment to best match the production style desired. To upgrade, install and manage all video equipment in all venues. To shoot videos as needed.

This position requires its primary duty must be the performance of work requiring invention, imagination, originality or talent in a recognized field of artistic or creative endeavor.

ABOUT THE FAITH CHURCH FILM & TV DEPARTMENT

The Faith Church Film & Television Department is responsible for producing and distributing video content across all the church's creative outlets. We inspire audiences to grow in their personal faith through live broadcast production, weekly television programs - airing on national and global networks; our weekend experiences, promotional ads and marketing, social media, creative event openers, and anything else related to video.

Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Personal:

• Maintain the God ordained priorities in your life putting Jesus Christ at the center of everything including your spouse, children, and the ministry
• Passionate about tithing at least 10% of your income to what God is doing through the vision of Faith Church
• Invest in and lead a Faith Church connect group
• Be responsible for developing & multiplying Dream Team
• Avoid the appearance of evil, let no hint of immorality exist and con­duct life with the upmost of integrity in all situations
• Attend services regularly with your entire family
• Maintain loyalty to the vision and staff of Faith Church and always protect the unity God has given this church
• Believes and operates in the gifts of the Spirit
• Wholeheartedly believes in the empowerment of women in Pastoral leadership
• Fully devoted follower of Christ

• Person of Godly character and integrity
• Loves Faith Church and lives our vision and culture
• In alignment with “What We Believe” and “Leadership Core Values”
• Attend weekly Staff Meeting
• Personal social media posts in regards to Church activity must be aligned exclusively with Faith Church

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• To work closely with the Visual & Media Arts Pastor in assuming primary responsibility for the coordination and operation of all video equipment in the live service venues of Faith Church, working closely with the other members of the Live Production team and venue pastors.
• Maintain working knowledge of stage production, set design and following department programs for optimal production effect.
• Serve as live video director understanding the expectations of the Lead Pastor & Campus Pastor as they relate to multi-campus simulcast and live video production techniques.
• Coordinate and/or lead set-up and teardown for events on and off campus, as scheduled by the Campus Pastor.
• Coordinate the upgrades, installation, maintenance, organization, and repair of all Faith Church video equipment.
• Recruit, train, and empower volunteers to operate the production equipment in all campus venues. Training programs should include style, team building, spiritual development, technical levels for advancement, and vision casting.
• Understand basic concepts including, but not limited to, electrical safety, video switchers, cabling, circuits, audio, lighting, and video equipment.
• Attend rehearsals and meetings, as required. Schedule early meetings with set designers and/or other departments for collaboration and planning of services and events.
• Understand and advocate for the Live Production team, including cross-training within the department and communicating the “why” behind the production team in the local church.
• Responsible for hosting, setting up, and performing video shoots on-site and off-site in coordination with the Film & TV Department.

Qualifications

Competencies

• Recruitment of volunteers. Desire and ability to build community within the team, and invest in the lives of the volunteers.
• Ability to train, develop and cast vision to adults, with energy and encouragement.
• Broad knowledge of church production.
• Understanding and translating department goals and information into production concepts
• Ability to make quick, accurate, independent decisions under pressure
• Exhibits good judgment, honesty, integrity, responsibility, and punctuality through the utilization of professional work standards.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervising personnel, coworkers, and the general public.
• Promptly performs other related duties as assigned and required with excellence.

Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment (routinely uses standard office and video equipment) and on filming shoots.

Physical Demands
Office time is mostly a sedentary role (stationary at desk and working on a computer); during video shoots, services and events, must have high energy for multiple hour segments.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
The weekly schedule will include 40-45 hours per week and will be the same every week. In addition to your regular weekly hours you will be asked to participate in events that will include evening or weekend hours, as there are continual seasons where it will be necessary to exceed these minimum hours (i.e., Christmas, Easter, Strategic Planning, are just some examples and do not encompass all of the extended hours opportunities). These hours can/will fluctuate.

Sunday: varies depending on campus assigned

Monday: 10:00am – 6:00pm

Tuesday: 10:00am – 10:00pm

Wednesday: 10:00am – 6:00pm

Thursday: OFF

Friday: OFF

Saturday: 2:00pm - 9:00pm

Travel
Campus to campus local travel and occasional overnight trips will be expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience

1. Level of experience: Intermediate (practical application)
2. 5 years of video and/or production engineering; OR any equivalent combination of training and experience.
3. Training and/or education in media production, or related field, preferred.
4. Experience using ProPresenter setup and operation.
5. Advanced experience with Ross Video Switchers, broadcast video systems, or similar complex equipment.
6. Working knowledge of large-scale productions, and the implementation process of rigging and programming for live and recorded events.
7. Experience in organization and budget management.
8. Relevant experience to assist other areas of the Live Production department is preferred.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.